Media And Meltdown

May 14, 1986|By Gilbert Marcus.

CHICAGO — Strange indeed that the media, in its magical way, can again tell us just what has happened in the meltdown at the nuclear plant near Kiev when even a group of Americans who were in Kiev at the time of the disaster hadn`t heard about it.

Why do the media continue to do these things when the only good that can come from it is bad. If they would only wait until they could get even a measure of news from official sources; then, and only then, should they report what has happened; even the ordinary citizen in Russia (?) doesn`t know what`s going on!